Sections: Wars and Conflicts; Foreign Policy; Civil Liberties in Wartime

1890s - 1902: Hawaii, China, Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines

Overview essay, "The Spanish-American War" - by David Trask - http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/trask.html

Brief CNN article comparing the US-Filipino conflict with Iraw and Afghanistan

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Phil-Afgh Parallel.doc

Mark Twain and Empire

http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/twain.html

Scholarly Analyses of Foreign Policy and Statements or Doctrines

Required

1. National Issues Options

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National Issues Forum - 4 Approaches.doc

2. President Bush on liberty and foreign policy. Bush-Age of Liberty.doc

3. Robert Kagan, “Cowboy Nation” – The New Republic, Online, October 16, 2006 http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18796

4. Andrew Bacevich - “Is This The 'End Of American Exceptionalism'?” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94505191

5. "Let Your Enemies Crumble: The US forgot the lessons of the cold war when it came to Iraq" Peter Beinart, Time Magazine, June 5, 2006 (May 29, 2006 on-line) - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1198924,00.html

Optional Items On Western Aid: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0823/p12s01-woaf.html

Should you want to dig further, examine the following sites:

Interventions 1798-1993 - http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm

A nice “crib sheet” - “Isolation to Intervention” – Notes page - http://library.thinkquest.org/17126/chapter/20.html

Civil Liberties in Wartime
1. Overviews
a) Exploring Constitutional Conflicts – Douglas Linder, Introduction http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/firstaminto.htm
b) 02.15.02

2. WWI Era
a) LEP 796-797; 805-808
b)summary of “Civil Liberties in Wartime” WWI and handout articles
WWI-Readings.doc

Cases
Clear and Present Danger Test - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/clear&pdanger.htm
Read the links to the Cases

Geoffrey Stone, "What You Can't Say Will Hurt You"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/opinion/15stone.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=stone%20+%20what%20you%20can't%20say&st=cse

3. WWII and Internment

a) Read two of the following items.
a1) LEP 921-925
a2)From Citizen to Enemy: The Tragedy of Japanese Internment" by Julie Des Jardins, Professor of History, Baruch College
Gilder Lehrman on Internment:http://www.historynow.org/12_2007/historian4.html
a3)Former APUSH student, Karrah Petruska’s, essay.
Japanese Internment-Petruska.doc

b) Examine one of these two stellar sites
b1) Digital History - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/japanese_internment/internment_decision.cfm
Explore the images throughout the site, and in particular at "The Internment Experience"
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/japanese_internment/internment_experience.cfm

b2) From the Smithsonian - "A More Perfect Union" - http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/overview.html


c) Read on ONE of the camps.
c1) San Francisco - http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
c2) Camp Harmony, Seattle - http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/index.html
c3) Camp Manzanar. From "Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites"
by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord - http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anthropology74/cet.htm
Explore the chapter on Manzanar. It is long, so curse through it.

You may want to examine this word document which pastes together information from the PBS program "Children of Camps". After the timeline, there are two pages - one lists the camps and some basic details and the final one health issues.
Internment-PBS site documents.doc

This site describes "Community Activities" - http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/internment_community.html
This article

d) Read on the legal justifications
d1)A word document "In Defense of Internment", pulling together a variety of sources
A Defense of Internment.doc

d2) A USA Today article on Ex Parte Quirin - http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-29-combatants-strategy_x.htm


e) How to remember and reconcile?
e1) A memorial to Fred Korematsu - December 25, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/magazine/25korematsu.html?scp=4&sq=korematsu&st=cse

e2) Service and the draft of Nisei
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/loyalty_draft.html
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/service_100th.html

The 442 RCT
(a) http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210341/442nd/splash442nd.htm
(b) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/100-442in.htm
(c) http://www.the442.org/

e3) The German experience. German American Internee Coalition - http://www.gaic.info/index.html

e4) Is this a just conclusion to this era of our history?
Civil Liberties Act of 1988, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/japanese_internment/civil_liberties_1988.cfm
"Justice" - canhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/justice_court.html
"From a Quiet American, a Story of War and Remembrance" - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/opinion/16sat4.html?_r=1


4. Cold War
a) LEP 934-935; 947-948; 949-952
2 sided handout on Truman era
c) The Rosenbergs - An Account - Douglas Linder http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_ACCT.HTM
d) On prior restraint - 1971 and 1979. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/priorrestraints.htm


Ellen Schrecker - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-age.html

5. Post 9/11
Patriot Debates- http://www.abanet.org/natsecurity/patriotdebates/
Section 214 an 215 - http://www.abanet.org/natsecurity/patriotdebates/214-and-215-2#opening
FISA - http://www.abanet.org/natsecurity/patriotdebates/206-2#rebuttal